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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

AS you can see below, I enabled the RPMfusion repos but I can't install akmod-nvidia. it doesn't even show up as being available. However, I can install other things from the RPMrpmfusion repositories. I can even browse to those repos on the web and see that akmod-nvidia is there.

This is a Clean install from the F19 LXDE Live CD (no fedup) and you're rigth. I don't see any akmod's from the non-free repos. I do see a few akmods from the RPMFusion Free repos. It's just the non-free repos that I'm having trouble with. I can't expain it.

If you look at the errors I had up there, when I made the cache, they were all from the non-free repos. They were all sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] errors. That might be a clue but even if it is, I don't know what to try next.

Here is the yum.conf

Code:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Thanks for the excellent suggestion but I gave that a try and it didn't help. The databases were rebuilt and I still can't see any akmod-nvidia stuff. I did a yum clean all, then yum makecache generated the followng error.

I think I'm going to try editing rpmfusion-nonfree.repo & rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo and
manually pointing to a mirror that I know for certain has the akmod-nvidia files. If that doesn't work, I don't know what else I could possibly do.

Well, I finally got it to work. There is some kind of problem with the non-free mirrors on leaseweb.net. I tried excluding leaseweb.net in the yum fastestmirror.conf but that didn't seem to help. It tried to use it anyway.

I finally edited rpmfusion-nonfree.repo & rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo and changed the base url to point to specific mirrors and that worked.